Sorry, but we have to start with home plate ump Gabe Morales. I’m 74 and I’ve seen a lot of baseball games, including coaching a few hundred youth and teen games, but I have never — never, ever — seen a worse job of calling balls and strikes than Morales did today.
Note this is not a case of “we wuz robbed,” of sour grapes that our team got the short end of the calls. There wasn’t a batter or a pitcher on either Sox who didn’t suffer from at least a few terrible calls, as Morales’ strike zone roamed more than Marco Polo.